[security-discuss] mailman config for security-discuss and security sponsored projects

2007-11-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
I'm planning on turning OFF the [security-discuss] tags inserted by mailman into the Subject: for all emails to this alias and to the following security community sponsored project lists: loficc-discuss, zfs-crypto-discuss, crypto-discuss, crypto-notify. I would like to request that the owners

[security-discuss] open source security documentation

2007-11-28 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi all, Did you know that the Solaris Trusted Extensions and security administration documentation is open source? Download the latest XML source files and HTML here: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/downloads/current/ Directories beginning with TR contain the Trusted docs, the SYSADV6 directory c

[security-discuss] [zfs-discuss] xVm blockers!

2007-11-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
K wrote: > 4/ Poor exploit mitigation under Solaris. In comparaison, OpenBSD, > grsec linux and Windows => XP SP2 have really good exploit > mitigation It is a shame because solaris offered a non-exec stack > before nearly everyone else... but it stopped there... no heap > protection, e

[security-discuss] [osol-discuss] New passwd switch?

2007-11-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 07:23:35AM -0800, Gary Winiger wrote: >> Secondly, Craig has hired someone to work on SMC. Once he gets >> up to speed, one of the tasks I've got planned for him is >> a general key=value extension so SMC will not continue to block >

[security-discuss] zlogging for non-root accounts

2007-11-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
Giovanni Schmid wrote: > I'm wondering if there is a way enabling non-root users to log into a zone > via zlogin. > I had supposed that using zlogin with the security attribute uid=0 could > work, but I was disappointed. Indeed, I edited /etc/security/exec_attr , > adding the line: > System Admi

[security-discuss] [osol-discuss] New passwd switch?

2007-11-28 Thread Glenn Faden
I agree that adding one or more generic advanced tabs to support new keywords is something that should be added to the SMC. We are looking into some of the details about how to do this. At a minimum we need to have some registration file that enumerates the valid keywords for each of the RBAC d

[security-discuss] [osol-discuss] New passwd switch?

2007-11-28 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 11:11:20AM +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > For OpenSolaris I completely agree. However for Solaris the reason we > need SMC is that unlike nistbladm or ldapmodify or vi it actually audits > and uses authorisations to determine who can modify. We need this for > our Comm

[security-discuss] openssl and pkcs11_engine-0.9.8e.patch.2007-05-25

2007-11-28 Thread Jan
Hello, I think I'm in the same situation as Mark and I have a question about how can I handle private keys in opnessl if I can' retrieve them from the HSM. I hope you are willing to help me. Here is my situation: I'm working on my own pkcs11 engine to support RSA operations. I have a pkcs11 pro